Spring 2011 Class Schedule

Spring 2011 Class Schedule - updated June 14, 2011 at 08:55 am

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*First day attendance required.* This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to post-Civil Rights Movement Black Feminist Thought. We will read Michele Wallace, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins and Patricia Williams to understand numerous events in the 1990s. We will question why the US Senate did not believe Anita Hill; why Senator Carol Moseley Braun didn't win re-election; why Lani Gunier did not have a hearing; why Dr. Joycelyn Elders didn't maintain her post; and why Congresswoman Barbara Lee stood alone in her opposition to the Iraq war resolution.

AMST 294-02

US Racial Formations and the Global Economy

W

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

HUM 214

Karin Aguilar-San Juan

9 / 25

*First day attendance required.* The point of this course is to study the ways that globalization as a historical and economic process affects real human lives. Precisely how did the Earth evolve into a "planet of slums"? How and why do global inequalities manifest as racial formations? In what sense is the "intersection of identities" a byproduct of global economic events? We will consider the notion that Western colonization and exploitation of people and resources in Latin America, Africa, and Asia relied on and produced racialized experiences and identities. We will ask: To what extent are racial inequalities the collateral damage of progress and development in the Global North? We will also examine the idea that "another world is possible." What solidarities between constituencies in the Global North and Global South are created by the very same events that divide them? How are those solidarities being enacted now? Key authors and texts for this course include: PATRICK BOND, Looting Africa; JAMES BOGGS, American Revolution; AMY CHUA, World on Fire; MIKE DAVIS, Planet of slums; RUTH WILSON GILMORE, Golden Gulag; SUSAN GEORGE, Another world is possible if‚?¶; CHE GUEVARA, Global Justice; EDUARDO GALEANO, Open Veins of Latin America; MANNING MARABLE, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America; DAVID HARVEY, Brief History of Neoliberalism; PIERRE JALEE, Pillage of the Third World; WALTER RODNEY, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa; IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN, Historical Capitalism

AMST 294-05

US in the 1930's

W

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

MAIN 009

Peter Rachleff

9 / 25

*Cross-listed with HIST 294-01*

AMST 305-01

Race/Sex/Work Global Econ

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

CARN 105

Corie Hammers

19 / 25

*Cross-listed with WGSS 305-01*

AMST 308-01

Intro to U.S. Latino Studies

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

OLRI 300

Alicia Munoz

1 / 18

*Cross-listed with HISP 308-01 and LATI 308-01; first day attendance required*

AMST 315-01

Transnational Studies: Politics and Cultural Exchange

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

THEATR 205

Jane Rhodes

10 / 20

Since the arrival of Europeans and Africans in North America, the transnational movement of bodies, ideas, labor and capital has defined what we call "America." In the United States, raced, gendered and ethnic identities have a profound influence on how America is transnational. This course will look at the exchange of politics and culture across national boundaries that are imbricated in the American experience. Topics may include transatlantic abolitionism, popular culture and the U.S.-Mexican American war, anti-colonial activism, the exporting of American jazz, mass media and the Middle East, and the internationalization of hip-hop.

While political anthropology is the study of how power is distributed and wielded in a society, the anthropology of law concerns itself with the way social order is maintained and how "law" - as distinct from custom - is formulated and applied. This course examines the meaning of law and politics in cross-cultural perspective. The first half of the course examines how anthropologists have approached the study of politics and the state, from the structural functionalism of the 1940s and 50s to more processual approaches that emphasize the role of agents. In the second half of the course, we examine how people in different places at different times have understood the concept of law, how their understanding has been concretely manifested in the formulation of rules governing social relations and how those rules have been enforced. Role playing in a mock court, where the class puts on trial a Comanche medicine woman for practicing medicine without a license, will be used to understand how law works in a culturally complex society. Prerequisite: Anthropology 101 or 111.

ANTH 363-01

Anthropology of Development

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

CARN 404

Arjun Guneratne

6 / 20

ANTH 368-01

Life Histories/Cultures/Selves

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

CARN 05

Dianna Shandy

3 / 16

ANTH 380-01

Adv Medical Anthropology

W

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

CARN 05

Ron Barrett

-1 / 20

ANTH 394-01

Primates

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 06B

Scott Legge

10 / 20

Non-human primates can provide us with a unique perspective regarding what it means to be human. This course will begin with an introduction to primate evolution and taxonomy, followed by a general overview of behavioral ecology. It will then look at social behavior, reproduction, ethnoprimatology, conservation, and other issues related to selected groups of living primates. Prerequisite: Anthropology 101 or 111, or permission of instructor. Course counts toward the math/natural science distribution requirement.

*Cross-listed with ASIA 171-01.* This course is a survey of the arts of Japan from the neolithic era to the present, focusing on key works within their cultural, religious and historical contexts. Topics include yamato-e, the floating world, the decorative arts, landscape, and the artist as artisan.

*First day attendance required.* Recent years have seen exciting changes in the study of art patronage in Early Modern Italy. The outdated notion of artist as genius has been demystified and balanced with the fundamental role of the patron in the initiation of new trends in architecture, sculpture and painting. This course, organized according to a range of patrons, explores issues germane to art patronage in fifteenth to early seventeenth-century Florence, Venice, Rome, the Italian courts and their territories, and will consider private and communal, corporate and ecclesiastical, and large and small-scale commissions.

ART 294-02

Chinese Painting

M W F

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

HUM 402

Georgiana Podulke

17 / 20

*Cross-listed with ASIA 294-03.* This course is an introduction to the painting tradition of China from prehistory to the present, examining works in their cultural, historical, and religious contexts. Topics to be emphasized include the painting of mountains and rivers, the integration of poetry and calligraphy into painting, and Chinese aesthetic theory.

ART 294-03

Origami and its Application

T R

08:00 am-11:10 am

ART 135

Mayumi Amada

9 / 15

Origami is the Japanese traditional folk art of folding paper. In this class, students will learn the basic technique of folding Origami paper with an eye to using these techniques to create both traditional and contemporary Art objects. This basic technique will be applied to Art and other fields and disciplines. Students will have the opportunity to pursue their own creative work as well as shared work in a group environment.

Trans-national China: Negotiating Chineseness in the late 20th and 21st Centuries

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

HUM 112

Frederik Green

3 / 20

*Cross-listed with HMCS 294-01 and INTL 294-02.* This course explores negotiations of Chinese national and cultural identities from 1949 until the present from the People's Republic, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and the United States. The goal of the course is to explore multiple negotiations of Chineseness through a wide range of literary works and films from the post-war period to the present and to situate these works of art within their social, political, and cultural contexts. By moving beyond the confines of the Chinese Nation State, we explore the boundary zones of Chinese culture and analyze their potential challenge to the logic of national or area studies approaches to cultural phenomena. Optional film viewing

Wednesday evenings, 6-8pm, Humanities 226.

ASIA 294-02

Chinese Music

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

GDAY 308

Chuen-Fung Wong

-3 / 16

*Cross-listed with MUSI 294-01*

ASIA 294-03

Chinese Painting

M W F

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

HUM 402

Georgiana Podulke

17 / 20

*Cross-listed with ART 294-02.*

ASIA 304-01

Advanced Chinese II

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

HUM 112

Patricia Anderson

5 / 20

ASIA 304-L1

Advanced Chinese II Lab

T

08:30 am-09:30 am

HUM 110

Hong Juan Zhou

1 / 12

ASIA 304-L2

Advanced Chinese II Lab

T

01:20 pm-02:20 pm

HUM 402

Hong Juan Zhou

8 / 12

ASIA 408-01

Fourth Year Chinese II

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

HUM 228

Ling Zhang

10 / 20

ASIA 494-01

Translating Chinese: Theory and Practice

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

HUM 112

Frederik Green

7 / 15

*Cross-listed with LING 494-02.* How and why did the first translators who began to translate English into Chinese and Chinese into English choose the texts they translated? What problems, both linguistically and culturally, did (and do) they encounter? Did the same issues arise when translating into Chinese and English, and how were they respectively addressed? Who did the translating? This course approaches the topic of Chinese translation simultaneously from a socio-historical, empirical, and theoretical perspective. At the same time, we will study and back-translate existing translations, and attempt our own translations. Prerequisite: 2 years of Chinese language.

*Cross-listed with ENVI 285-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

BIOL 285-01

Ecology

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

HUM 226

Daniel Hornbach

2 / 46

*Cross-listed with ENVI 285-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

BIOL 285-L1

Ecology Lab

R

08:00 am-11:10 am

OLRI 284

Jerald Dosch

1 / 23

*Cross-listed with ENVI 285-L1; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

BIOL 285-L2

Ecology Lab

R

01:20 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 284

Michael Anderson

1 / 23

*Cross-listed with ENVI 285-L2; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

BIOL 342-01

Animal Behavior/Ecology

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

OLRI 284

Mark Davis

3 / 15

*First day attendance required*

BIOL 342-L1

Animal Behavior/Ecology Lab

T

08:00 am-11:10 am

OLRI 284

Mark Davis

3 / 15

*First day attendance required*

BIOL 352-01

Biochemistry II

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

OLRI 300

Christopher Calderone

19 / 32

*Cross-listed with CHEM 352-01*

BIOL 352-L1

Biochemistry II Lab

R

08:00 am-11:10 am

OLRI 289

Christopher Calderone

11 / 16

*Cross-listed with CHEM 352-L1; first day attendance required*

BIOL 352-L2

Biochemistry II Lab

R

01:20 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 289

Christopher Calderone

8 / 16

*Cross-listed with CHEM 352-L2; first day attendance required*

BIOL 358-01

Microbiology

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

OLRI 270

Steven Sundby

0 / 16

*First day attendance required*

BIOL 358-L1

Microbiology Lab

T

01:20 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 289

Steven Sundby

0 / 16

*First day attendance required*

BIOL 367-01

Human Physiology

M W F

08:30 am-09:30 am

OLRI 100

Lin Aanonsen

-8 / 32

BIOL 367-L1

Human Physiology Lab

T

01:20 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 275

Lin Aanonsen

-2 / 16

BIOL 367-L2

Human Physiology Lab

R

08:00 am-11:10 am

OLRI 275

Lin Aanonsen

-6 / 16

BIOL 369-01

Developmental Biology

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

OLRI 270

Mary Montgomery

1 / 12

BIOL 369-L1

Developmental Biology Lab

R

01:20 pm-03:20 pm

OLRI 273

Mary Montgomery

1 / 12

BIOL 394-01

Biology of Women

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

OLRI 300

Elizabeth Jansen

-4 / 16

*First day attendance required.* This course will cover human reproductive anatomy, physiology and endocrinology, with emphasis on the female. Lecture/discussion will cover the structure and function of the reproductive system, including the nervous and endocrine systems and inter-relationships. Topics covered will include the endometrial and ovarian cycles, sexual arousal and fertilization, contraception, infertility, abortion, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, and selected diseases. Advances in assisted reproductive technologies, hormone therapies, and genetic engineering technologies will be discussed. Not open to those who have taken Biology/WGSS 117: Women, Health and Reproduction. Prerequisite: Biol 265 Cell Biology. Three lecture hours per week.

BIOL 394-02

Seminar in Environmental Toxicology

M

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

OLRI 370

Nicholette Zeliadt

0 / 15

In this seminar students will examine how environmental chemicals interact with and impact the structure and function of biological systems. The course will begin with an introduction to basic principles of toxicology, including dose-response relationships, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of toxicants, mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, and risk assessment, and how environmental toxicants are tested and regulated. Critical reading of primary literature and review articles will complement additional discussions of how environmental chemicals cause harmful effects, the release of toxicants into the environment, and strategies to reduce risk and prevent harm. This course is designed for a variety of students interested in public health, environmental issues, and environmental bases for human disease. Students will participate through discussion, written and oral presentations, and a group project. Prerequisites: Biology 255 (Cell Biology and Genetics Lab), Biology 260 (Genetics) and Biology 265 (Cell Biology). (4 credits).

Computation plays a key role in chemical research today, with many articles in the literature using computer modeling to make predictions of chemical behavior and to interpret experimental results. Arguably the most powerful subfield of computational chemistry is quantum chemistry-the application of quantum mechanics to atoms and molecules. This course has the following goals: (1) introducing the basic concepts of quantum chemistry; (2) illustrating the power and limitations of different quantum chemical methods; (3) providing opportunities to apply quantum chemistry to a variety of systems. The emphasis throughout the course will be on the use of computers to make predictions, instead of the mathematics and physics underlying quantum mechanics. Prerequisite: Chemistry 212 (Organic Chemistry II) or permission of the instructor.

*2 credits; permission of instructor required; This upper level seminar is a cross-cultural dialogue with an upper level seminar on the same topic at Tel Hai College. The dialogue focuses on Mideast conflicts and is intended for those with in-depth knowledge of the region.

*Cross-listed with ENVI 265-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

ENGL 272-01

19th Century American Lit

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

CARN 208

James Dawes

-1 / 20

*First day attendance required*

ENGL 274-01

American Lit 1945-Present

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

MAIN 002

Scott Selisker

6 / 20

ENGL 280-01

Crafts of Writing: Poetry

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 305

Kristin Naca

0 / 16

*First day attendance required*

ENGL 281-01

Crafts of Writing: Fiction

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 241

Marlon James

-1 / 16

*First day attendance required*

ENGL 310-01

Shakespeare Studies

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

HUM 217

Theresa Krier

0 / 20

ENGL 331-01

19th Century British Novel

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

MAIN 111

Robert Warde

-1 / 20

*First day attendance required*

ENGL 380-01

Topics in African-American Literature: The Harlem Renaissance

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

MAIN 111

Daylanne English

1 / 20

*Cross-listed with AMST 380-01*

ENGL 384-01

Langston Hughes: Global Writer

T R

08:00 am-09:30 am

CARN 404

David Moore

4 / 20

*Cross-listed with INTL 384-01*

ENGL 394-01

Latina/o Poetics

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

HUM 217

Kristin Naca

6 / 16

*First day attendance required.* The terms Latina/o and Latinidad encompass myriad cultural practices, language performance, and migrations by and about Hispano American subjects. These terms also propose alternative geographic, temporal, and corporeal histories of the West. These terms allude to the desire, of multi-raced, multi-national, and/or multi-lingual subjects for self-identification and self-determination. In this course, we theorize Latina/o aesthetics' potential to engender oppositional space, through discursive practices of resistance. More specifically, we examine how poetry and prose forms might enact, replicate, or inspire social justice activism. We read examples of poetry from the ancients, the 19th century occupations of the Southwest, through the contemporary era. We read texts in original language and translation: Calo, French, English, Spanish. We study Latina/o theorists Anzaldua, Arteaga, Mesa-Baines, Monsivais, and Ybarra-Frausto to help us navigate a program of conciencia. We consider the poetics of reclamation and liberation of Puertorriquenos, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Clemente Soto Velez and Martin Espada. We walk through the fields with the character, Perfecto Flores, in the poetry and fiction of Chicanos Jimmy Santiago Baca and Helena Maria Viramontes. Poets who interpolate how "the border crossed us:" Lorna Dee Cervantes, Dolores Dorantes, and Tino Villanueva. We also consider the international and inter-ethnic gazes Latina/os cast bodies: Daisy Zamora and Francisco Aragon. As a W course, we practice thinking through writing, as well as experimentation in writing. We write fragments, queries, poems, and book reviews. Poets may also research and produce creative work, to incorporate into their final projects. Our aim is to perform scholar-activism through writing. No prerequisites.

ENGL 394-02

Topics in Literature and Creative Writing: Your Self as Character

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

MAIN 001

Marlon James

-3 / 16

*First day attendance required.* In response to biographer Wendy Moffat's declaration that Maurice was E.M. Forster's "only truly honest novel," the Novelist Colm Toibin, countered that "novels should not be honest at all. They are a pack of lies." Where does that leave the autobiographical novel? Or the modern memoir/autobiography, which borrows so much of its form and spirit from 20th century modernist fiction? In this course we will explore true spaces and false spaces, memory and imagination, the art of confession and concealment. We will study the works of writers, and artists who map decidedly personal spaces. Memoirists using prose to come to terms with the unspeakable. Novelists using false identities to tell true stories. Poets moving lyrically and associatively to pinpoint gut truths about their inner lives. Artists and filmmakers who in moving towards abstraction and/or physicality get to the core of what we as writers still stumble over. James Joyce's Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Man. Jeannette Winterson's Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. David Small's Stiches. William Burrough's Junkie. Joni Mitchell's Blue. Weezer's Pinkerton. Mapplethorpe's Polaroids. Karen Finley's Shut Up and Love Me and Make Love. Essentially a creative writing course, you will respond to these works with works of your own: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and audiovisual narrative telling the essential story of who you are. You will tell bald-faced lies, mine deep truths, and at the end of the semester produce a body of art that is your least sentimental but most honest work to date. Classes will be split between lectures, discussions, multimedia presentations, film viewings, theatre visits and workshops. Prerequisites: English 150, and one of English 280, 281, 282, or permission of instructor.

ENGL 394-03

Los Angeles and the American Dream

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

MAIN 009

Robert Warde

-1 / 20

*First day attendance required; film screenings to be announced.* One out of eight Americans lives in California; Los Angeles has become the second largest city in the country; and United States history involves, among other things, a steady movement of people both East to West and South (Mexico) to North. In this course we will examine the growth and nature of Los Angeles (its need for water, its automobiles, its film industry, its ethnic makeup, its lurking potential for natural disaster) and this city's relationship to the evolving identity of the nation as a whole. It will be a study in the significance of place, the impact of urban development, and the characteristics of the American dream. The focus is on literature, and we will consider such writers as Carey McWilliams, Nathanael West, Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Karen Tei Yamashita, Walter Mosley, Anna Deavere Smith, Luis Rodriguez, and D. J. Waldie. A companion film series will include feature films such as Chinatown, L. A. Confidential, Sunset Boulevard, Mulholland Drive, Boyz N the Hood, and The Big Lebowski, as well as seldom seen documentaries such as Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself and Kelly Parker's South Main. A music component will include a wide range of artists from Randy Newman, Madonna, and Tom Waits to Guns N' Roses, NWA, and 2Pac.

ENGL 394-04

A Kafkaesque Century

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

HUM 215

Kiarina Kordela

15 / 30

*Cross-listed with GERM 394-01.*

ENGL 394-05

Comparative (Neo/Post) Modernities

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

MAIN 009

Sonita Sarker

16 / 25

First day attendance required; cross-listed with WGSS 315, HIST 394-03 and HMCS 394-03.*

*First day attendance required.* We will examine pieces of literature in English and in French and analyze the different modes of expression, the various styles and compare their styles. Theoretical material will enable students to determine stylistic changes geared to specific contexts. At the same time, exercises will concentrate on translation from English to French and French to English. The books we are using progress from the specific parts of speech to general and complex questions concerning the order of the words (ordre des mots) and la mise en relief. Prerequisite: French 204, 305, 306 or permission of instructor.

FREN 394-02

French Culture from the Revolution to WWII

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

HUM 227

Martine Sauret

12 / 20

*First day attendance required.* The course will introduce students to various social, economical and intellectual movements from the end of the French Revolution to the end of World War II (1945). We will divide these periods into logical categories; important historic personalities, key political development, attitude-shaping philosophical movements, and significant artistic trends. The book we will use for this class contains six themes. Each theme will trace the cultural manifestation in question through readings, writings of journals, discussions, and essays from major periods of French history after 1789. Authentic readings will reinforce factual presentations from a wide variety of sources, both historical and modern. Themes culminate with a section of "activites d'expansion, reperes culturels," and discussions of movies and web sites. Students will visit the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center to examine paintings and sculptures relevant to the period. Prerequisite: French 204

FREN 415-01

Literary Periods/Movements: Money and Marketplace in 19th C French Literature

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

HUM 102

Juliette Rogers

14 / 20

*First day attendance required; this course taught in French.* French culture and society witnessed vast changes in its traditional structures and values during the 19th century, due to the influence of the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism. This course will offer a survey of 19th century French literature (novels, play, short stories, and poetry) linked to the theme of the course, money and the marketplace. We will examine the different roles and uses of money in the literary texts of the course, including works by Balzac, Flaubert, Hugo, and Zola, and we will identify some of the many 19th-century characters connected with different aspects of money: the banker, the notary, the lender, the speculator, the industrialist, the inheritor, the bankrupt, the criminal, the gambler, the artist, the young girl with/without dowry, the poor, etc. We will try to understand in what respects literature itself had become an object for purchase linked to the marketplace, and, finally, we will explore the question of whether or not there exists a relationship between money and the key 19th-century literary movements and styles (Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism).

FREN 494-01

Child Soldiers Through Texts and Films

M W F

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

HUM 102

Jean-Pierre Karegeye

12 / 20

*First day attendance required.* The phenomenon of child soldiers has taken hold of fiction in the recent years, as we can see in Edward Zwick's Blood Diamond. Various film directors and writers have chosen to give a voice to the millions of children thrown into war against their will in order to understand the conditions and mechanisms that lead to their recruitment and in order to encourage the protection of these children. In this course, we will try to consider war stories through the eyes of child soldiers. Among other questions, we will be guided by the following: How does the narrative voice of a child soldier change when the mode and genre of writing changes, for example, in novels, poetry, plays, comic books, and testimonial narratives? What differences are there between the representations of Violence and child soldiers in texts and films? How do texts and films address and respond to the moral dilemma of the child who is both victim and killer? What transforms inacceptable violence/murder into a routine, banal, and enjoyable game/activity?

Geography of Africa: Local Resources and Livelihoods in a Global Context

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

CARN 107

William Moseley

5 / 30

*First day attendance required*

GEOG 250-01

Race, Place, and Space

M

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

HUM 212

Daniel Gilbert

3 / 20

*Cross-listed with AMST 250-01.*

GEOG 256-01

Medical Geography

M

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

CARN 107

Helen Hazen

2 / 30

*First day attendance required*

GEOG 258-01

Geog of Environmental Hazards

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 107

Helen Hazen

16 / 35

*Cross-listed with ENVI 258-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

GEOG 263-01

Development/Underdevelopment

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

CARN 105

William Moseley

2 / 20

*First day attendance required.*

GEOG 294-02

Urban Ecology: Communities, Politics and Sustainability

M W F

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 06A

Kathryn Pratt

-1 / 20

*First day attendance required; cross-listed with ENVI 294-02, ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor* This course examines human-environment relationships in the urban setting. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we will advance an understanding of the political ecology of cities, and explore key ways that geographers and others are conceptualizing urban environments. In the first half of the course, we investigate forms of nature that are vital to the city-lawns, the urban forest, domestic and wild animals, parks and gardens-with the aim of understanding urban space as a blend of ecological and social processes. We will look at case studies from cities around the globe and explore the environment of the twin cities through hands-on field activities. In second half of the course we focus on urban environmental problems and solutions. We will examine the how human and non-human communities are affected by such issues as air pollution, water quality, solid waste management, and urban development. Finally, we explore the politics of sustainability and discuss possibilities for designing new urban ecologies. Key topics will include urban food systems, sustainable design, green space, and environmental justice.

This course, with laboratory, is an intensive introduction to the properties and genesis of soils. Soils reflect the intricate, focused interaction of geological, hydrological, and biological factors on the Earth's surface over variable temporal and spatial scales. The study of soils can often help determine which processes were dominant in the past, and which factors may direct the future evolution of a landscape. Topics to be covered include: soil morphology, soil physical and chemical properties, phyllosilicate mineralogy, soil biology, and the geochemical cycles of C and N. Key applications of soil science to geology, environmental studies, ecology, and/or archaeology will also be emphasized. Early laboratory activities will entail physical, chemical and instrumental study of soil properties, while field sessions later in the semester will engage students in the description and sampling of soil profiles for a variety of research needs.

GEOL 294-02

Paleoclimate

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

OLRI 270

Louisa Bradtmiller

8 / 18

Earth's climate has evolved with the planet itself, as changing boundary conditions in the ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere and lithosphere have caused global icehouses, greenhouses and mass extinctions. Information about these events is recorded in the geologic record in the form of fossils and rock sequences, but also in lake and ocean sediment cores, ice cores, cave deposits and tree rings. This course will provide an overview of changes in climate throughout Earth history while also examining the proxies and archives used to reconstruct those changes. We will also construct our own record of paleoclimate using cores from a local lake and a variety of laboratory techniques. Prerequisites: an introductory course on either climate or Earth history.

GEOL 294-L1

Soils and Landscapes Lab

T

01:20 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 175

STAFF

0 / 18

GEOL 294-L2

Paleoclimate Lab

TBA

TBA

Louisa Bradtmiller

8 / 18

*Lab will meet 3-hours per week, to be determined during first class meeting.*

*Cross-listed with ENGL 394-04.* "Kafkaesque" is a word that has become part of everyday vocabulary in innumerous languages, used by millions of people who might or not have ever read Kafka. Evidently, the work of this German-speaking Jewish author from Prague captured something about modern life that no word could express except one deriving from his own name. This is probably why 'everybody knows' the word and 'nobody can explain' it. To understand therefore the "Kafkaesque" is to understand at once Kafka's work and modern life, at least as we know it since the early twentieth century. To do so, in this course we are going to read closely some of Kafka's short stories and novels, as well as some of the most influential commentaries on his work. All readings will be in English. Though this a 300-level course, it requires no pre-knowledge and is appropriate for all level students.

GERM 394-02

Value: the Bad, the Ugly, and the Cheap

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

HUM 215

Kiarina Kordela

6 / 30

*Cross-listed with ART 394-02 and HMCS 394-02.* For thousands of years value has been scrutinized in philosophy, art history, and economic analysis, as it cuts across three constitutive aspects of human and social life: ethics, aesthetics, and economy. Not only do we have and impose on the world our moral, aesthetic, and exchange values, but these three fields often become difficult to distinguish, as is evident in the slippery flexibility of words that allow us to say as much "I find this painting bad" as "I think this person is bad," or "this is a worthless remark" but also "this is a worthless check." This course will focus primarily on influential accounts of value in aesthetic theory, while also examining the ways in which aesthetic value demarcates itself from or implicates its moral and economic counterparts, and what the interplays among the three fields entail for aesthetic value. Our readings will include: Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Hume, Baumgarten, Burke, Lessing, Kant, Schiller, Schelling, Schlegel, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Croce, Tolstoy, Heidegger, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Adorno, Benjamin, Jean-Francois Lyotard. All readings in English. No pre-knowledge required.

*TBA sections of labs at all levels (101, 102, 203, 204) are reserved for students whose schedules conflict with all other lab sections offered. If you register for a TBA lab section you will need to see Susana Blanco-Iglesias (HUM 200A), Practicum Coordinator, to make arrangements with a tutor in the Department of Hispanic Studies. Any questions or concerns should be directed to blancoiglesi@macalester.edu or by calling x6791.*

HISP 102-01

Elementary Spanish II

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

HUM 402

Alicia Munoz

7 / 20

*First day attendance required*

HISP 102-02

Elementary Spanish II

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

HUM 401

Laura Wasenius

6 / 20

*First day attendance required*

HISP 102-03

Elementary Spanish II

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

HUM 227

Laura Wasenius

7 / 20

HISP 102-L1

Elementary Spanish II Lab

T

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

OLRI 243

Lucrecia Zanolli

0 / 12

HISP 102-L2

Elementary Spanish II Lab

W

08:30 am-09:30 am

OLRI 370

Lucrecia Zanolli

2 / 12

HISP 102-L3

Elementary Spanish II Lab

W

09:40 am-10:40 am

OLRI 370

Lucrecia Zanolli

7 / 12

HISP 102-L4

Elementary Spanish II Lab

R

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

OLRI 101

Lucrecia Zanolli

1 / 12

HISP 102-L5

Elementary Spanish II Lab

M

03:30 pm-04:00 pm

HUM 217

STAFF

10 / 12

*TBA sections of labs at all levels (101, 102, 203, 204) are reserved for students whose schedules conflict with all other lab sections offered. If you register for a TBA lab section you will need to see Susana Blanco-Iglesias (HUM 200A), Practicum Coordinator, to make arrangements with a tutor in the Department of Hispanic Studies. Any questions or concerns should be directed to blancoiglesi@macalester.edu or by calling x6791.*

HISP 110-01

Accel Beginning Spanish

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

HUM 215

Laura Wasenius

0 / 15

*Permission of instructor required; 5 credit course*

HISP 110-L1

Accel Beginning Spanish Lab

M W

08:00 pm-09:00 pm

HUM 213

STAFF

3 / 10

HISP 110-L2

Accel Beginning Spanish Lab

W F

12:00 pm-01:00 pm

HUM 217

STAFF

5 / 10

HISP 111-01

Accel Elementary Portuguese

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

HUM 111

David Sunderland

1 / 15

*First day attendance required*

HISP 111-L1

Accel Elem Portuguese Lab

F

12:00 pm-01:00 pm

HUM 111

STAFF

7 / 10

HISP 111-L2

Accel Elem Portuguese Lab

W

12:00 pm-01:00 pm

HUM 111

STAFF

6 / 10

HISP 111-L3

Accel Elem Portuguese

T

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 300

STAFF

7 / 10

HISP 203-01

Intermediate Spanish I

M W F

12:00 pm-01:00 pm

HUM 212

Cynthia Kauffeld

4 / 20

*First day attendance required*

HISP 203-02

Intermediate Spanish I

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

HUM 214

Cynthia Kauffeld

9 / 20

*First day attendance required*

HISP 203-03

Intermediate Spanish I

M W F

08:30 am-09:30 am

HUM 213

Rosa Rull-Montoya

8 / 20

*First day attendance required*

HISP 203-L1

Intermediate Spanish I Lab

T

08:30 am-09:30 am

HUM 215

Hugo Gonzalez Martinez

6 / 12

HISP 203-L2

Intermediate Spanish I Lab

T

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

HUM 111

Lucrecia Zanolli

2 / 12

HISP 203-L3

Intermediate Spanish I Lab

W

09:40 am-10:40 am

HUM 404

Hugo Gonzalez Martinez

12 / 12

HISP 203-L4

Intermediate Spanish I Lab

W

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

OLRI 370

Lucrecia Zanolli

-2 / 12

HISP 203-L5

Intermediate Spanish I Lab

R

08:30 am-09:30 am

HUM 217

Lucrecia Zanolli

7 / 12

HISP 203-L6

Intermediate Spanish I Lab

R

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

HUM 216

Hugo Gonzalez Martinez

8 / 12

HISP 203-L7

Intermediate Spanish I Lab

TBA

TBA

STAFF

12 / 12

*TBA sections of labs at all levels (101, 102, 203, 204) are reserved for students whose schedules conflict with all other lab sections offered. If you register for a TBA lab section you will need to see Susana Blanco-Iglesias (HUM 200A), Practicum Coordinator, to make arrangements with a tutor in the Department of Hispanic Studies. Any questions or concerns should be directed to blancoiglesi@macalester.edu or by calling x6791.*

HISP 204-01

Intermediate Spanish II

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

OLRI 101

Galo Gonzalez

-2 / 20

*First day attendance required*

HISP 204-02

Intermediate Spanish II

M W F

08:30 am-09:30 am

HUM 212

Alexandra Bergmann

1 / 20

*First day attendance required*

HISP 204-03

Intermediate Spanish II

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

HUM 212

Alexandra Bergmann

3 / 20

*First day attendance required*

HISP 204-L1

Intermediate Spanish II Lab

T

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

HUM 216

Hugo Gonzalez Martinez

3 / 12

HISP 204-L2

Intermediate Spanish II Lab

T

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

OLRI 250

Hugo Gonzalez Martinez

-1 / 12

HISP 204-L3

Intermediate Spanish II Lab

W

08:30 am-09:30 am

HUM 404

Hugo Gonzalez Martinez

4 / 12

HISP 204-L4

Intermediate Spanish II Lab

W

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

HUM 216

Hugo Gonzalez Martinez

1 / 12

HISP 204-L5

Intermediate Spanish II Lab

R

08:30 am-09:30 am

HUM 215

Hugo Gonzalez Martinez

2 / 12

HISP 204-L6

Intermediate Spanish II Lab

R

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

THEATR 204

Hugo Gonzalez Martinez

5 / 12

HISP 204-L7

Intermediate Spanish II Lab

W

09:00 am-09:30 am

HUM 113

STAFF

11 / 12

*TBA sections of labs at all levels (101, 102, 203, 204) are reserved for students whose schedules conflict with all other lab sections offered. If you register for a TBA lab section you will need to see Susana Blanco-Iglesias (HUM 200A), Practicum Coordinator, to make arrangements with a tutor in the Department of Hispanic Studies. Any questions or concerns should be directed to blancoiglesi@macalester.edu or by calling x6791.*

*Cross-listed with AMST 308-01 and LATI 308-01; first day attendance required*

HISP 309-01

Intro to Hispanic Linguistics

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

HUM 217

Susana Blanco-Iglesias

-2 / 15

*Cross-listed with LING 309-01; first day attendance required*

HISP 331-01

Luso-Brazilian Voices

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

OLRI 370

David Sunderland

5 / 15

*First day attendance required*

HISP 331-L1

Luso-Brazilian Voices Lab

TBA

TBA

STAFF

5 / 15

HISP 415-01

Cultural Survival: Resisting the Legacy of Colonialism in the Americas

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

HUM 111

Margaret Olsen

3 / 15

*Cross-listed with INTL 415-01 and LATI 415-01; first day attendance required. The primary objective of this course is to trace with students the historical trajectory that connects colonialism with contemporary struggles for cultural survival in the Americas. We will use historical texts, testimonial documents and maps to explore how and why cultures and languages have been threatened, particularly among peoples of Native American and African descent in selected sites of the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and North America. We will also examine colonial and postcolonial strategies of resistance against dominant cultures within verbal, visual and performative expressions. So that students may come to understand that cultural survival remains an urgent and local concern for many peoples in our historical moment of globalization, a central part of our course will entail semester-long community collaborations with Latino, Native American and African American cultural organizations in the Twin Cities.

HISP 420-01

Mod/Postmod Hispanic Fiction

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

HUM 217

Galo Gonzalez

8 / 20

*First day attendance required*

HISP 488-01

Senior Seminar

M

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

HUM 111

Margaret Olsen

13 / 20

*First day attendance required*

HISP 494-01

Spanish in the United States

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

HUM 212

Cynthia Kauffeld

9 / 20

*Cross-listed with LING 494-01; first day attendance required.* A survey of the different varieties of US Spanish and the effects of the linguistic contact between Spanish and English. In addition to study of dialectal variation, other themes of the course will include bilingualism, bilingual education, and Spanglish. Students will conduct research on a related topic of their choice for their final projects. Course will include two exams and a research paper. Prerequisite: 309 or consent of the instructor.

In order to fully comprehend modern cities and the societies that form them, one must first understand the circumstances that occasioned their initial development, what ideas earlier societies used to help form their concept of a city and finally the manner in which they evolved throughout the world. It is essential that one bare in mind possible geographical variation in the concept of what a city is. One of the most rudimentary problems in understanding the nature of the city, and settling the debate over its contribution to questions like the rise of urbanization, is the plethora of vocabulary, descriptions and visual images used by different societies in the discussion of what makes a city. This course will introduce students to world history by taking a look at cities from different societies and time periods, and the similarities and differences between them. By the end of the course students will have a clear understanding of the history of the City and the contributions of different societies to it. Some of the cities considered in this course will include: Athens, Dublin, Jerusalem, London, Rome and New York.

HIST 115-01

Africa Since 1800

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

HUM 228

Jamie Monson

2 / 25

HIST 181-01

Latin America/Caribbean

M W F

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

MAIN 010

Melanie Huska

13 / 25

*Cross-listed with LATI 181-01*

HIST 194-01

Three Rivers Environmental History

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

OLRI 301

Christopher Wells

12 / 20

*Cross-listed with ENVI 194-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

HIST 194-03

History of Feminisms

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

MAIN 111

Lynn Hudson

9 / 25

*First day attendance required; cross-listed with WGSS 201-01.* This is an introductory course about the history of feminism as it was articulated and experienced in the United States from roughly 1800-1970. We will focus not only on the experience of those who worked for the cause of woman's rights but also the ideologies at home and abroad that influenced feminist thought. In so doing, we will interrogate the myths about feminism and the backlash against it that are central to the history, culture, and politics of the United States. This course is especially concerned with the multiple and contradictory strains within feminism. Topics that the class will consider include: the roots of feminism as it took shape in the anti-slavery movement, the overlap of women's rights and the civil rights movement of the twentieth century, and the women's health movement, among others.

HIST 228-01

Gender and Sexuality in Colonial America

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

MAIN 010

Andrea Cremer

-2 / 25

*Cross-listed with WGSS 228-01*

HIST 232-01

Immigration/Ethnicity US Hist

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

MAIN 002

Peter Rachleff

6 / 25

*Cross-listed with AMST 232-01*

HIST 236-01

Consumer Nation: American Consumer Culture in the 20th Century

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

OLRI 241

Christopher Wells

1 / 25

*Cross-listed with ENVI 236-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

HIST 248-01

Jim Crow

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

MAIN 001

Lynn Hudson

3 / 25

*Cross-listed with AMST 248-01; first day attendance required*

HIST 257-01

Empires

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

MAIN 001

Peter Weisensel

15 / 25

HIST 274-01

History of Traditional China

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

MAIN 003

Yue-him Tam

14 / 25

*Cross-listed with ASIA 274-01*

HIST 277-01

History of Modern Japan

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

MAIN 003

Yue-him Tam

17 / 25

*Cross-listed with ASIA 277-01*

HIST 294-01

US in the 1930s

W

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

MAIN 009

Peter Rachleff

9 / 25

*Cross-listed with AMST 294-05.* Could there be a better time than the midst of the Great Recession to study the Great Depression? The Great Depression of the 1930s provided an opportunity to reconsider the organization of U.S. society and to explore new economic, political, social, and cultural projects and arrangements. Significant developments included the reorganization of the U.S. economy (along the lines of what would be called "Keynesianism") and politics (the emergence of the "New Deal coalition" within the Democratic Party); the emergence of new cultural aesthetics in theater, literature, dance, music, film, and visual art; the incorporation of mass cultural forms, like radio, into politics; and the questioning of long-standing patterns in race, gender, and sexuality. Much of what resulted from the turmoil of the 1930s led to the institutional arrangements ("the New Deal order") which continued to shape the U.S. into the 1980s and has been the subject of criticisms and calls for dismantlement. After the economic implosion of 2008, we have also heard debates about the desirability of a "new New Deal." That is, the developments within this decade continue to be foundational to our contemporary lives. This course provides an opportunity to explore what happened and why, and what it has meant for life in these United States. It also gives us a valuable angle from which to reflect on our present crisis.

HIST 294-02

France and Germany: Neighbors, Nations and Citizenship French Revolution to European Integration

M W F

12:00 pm-01:00 pm

MAIN 010

Aeleah Soine

16 / 25

The histories of France and Germany have been closely intertwined due to their geographic proximity, competitive aspirations for geopolitical power and status, and collective responsibility for the stability and prosperity of the European continent as its two largest states. This course will introduce students to major theoretical and historiographic debates over national identities, nation-state formation, and citizenship, highlighting interdisciplinary work of scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Drawing upon historical the case studies of France and Germany, we will also trace the processes of defining European nationhood and citizenship since the end of the eighteenth century. Specific themes will include the dynamics and upheaval of revolutions, the unification of people and political entities, imperialism and irredentism, domestic tensions between majority and minority interests, and steps toward European integration culminating in the European Union. We will also examine the changing definitions of French, German, and European citizenship as an entry point into deeper discussions of how nations are perpetually constructing and redefining boundaries of inclusion and exclusion based upon considerations of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and religion.

HIST 294-03

Medieval Travelers and Their Accounts

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

OLRI 270

Melanie Maddox

19 / 25

Travelers during the Middle Ages undertook their journeys for a variety of reasons. Some made pilgrimages to holy sites, some embarked on a mission to spread Christianity, while others traveled for economic and political reasons. This course will focus on the use of primary sources to consider how Medieval travelers viewed the world around them, why they undertook their journeys and the challenges they faced on their travels. When considering the manuscript tradition of travel accounts, it becomes clear that these accounts were not only important to the individuals who undertook them or wrote them down, but also to other individuals who had the opportunity to read or hear about such travels. In order to gain a complete picture of Medieval travelers, this course will not only consider actual travel accounts, but also primary sources that describe imaginary journeys. By a close consideration of both real and imaginary journeys, students will gain a fuller understanding of what inspired Medieval travelers to discover and experience different aspects of the world around them. Some of the primary sources to be considered include works by: Adomn√°n, Benjamin of Tudela, Gerald of Wales, Ibn Battuta, Thomas More.

HIST 294-04

Monks, Lords, War and Pestilence: Europe 950-1350

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

HUM 228

Melanie Maddox

9 / 25

Medieval Europe is often thought of in terms of violence, plague and religious conflict, but it is also a time when great works of architecture, art and literature were created, as well as the formation of views that would define both church and state. This course will consider the making of Europe by looking at the world of monks, lords and peasants, conquest, the resolution of conflicts and the arrival of the Black Death in Europe. While considering these topics, students will gain an understanding of the economic, political, religious and social growth of Europe that took place from AD 950-1350.

HIST 294-05

From Telenovelas to Tacos: Popular Culture in Mexican History

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

MAIN 010

Melanie Huska

9 / 25

*Cross-listed with LATI 294-01.* This course investigates the history and politics of popular culture in modern Mexico. We will examine a broad range of popular culture forms including music, telenovelas (soap operas), food, film, radio, fashion, sports and comic books. Through our analysis of these diverse sources we will consider two broad themes: politics and identity. Moving roughly chronologically we will examine issues such as the role of popular culture in Mexican nation building and collective identity; the state‚??s relationship with the culture industries; cultural imperialism and cultural nationalism; the relationships between regional and national cultures; cultural exports and the impacts of NAFTA; and popular culture as a site for creative resistance. Short lectures will provide background for lively and participatory discussion.

HIST 294-08

Ethics of Service

M

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

MAIN 010

Jamie Monson

3 / 25

In this course we will discuss the ethical questions that arise when students engage in service and learning in contexts of difference. Taking our examples from Peace Corps; Teach for America; travel/study abroad; community activism and human rights work, we will read and discuss diverse perspectives on the ways that power and privilege relate to service and altruism. We will place our discussion in historical perspective while considering its implications for today's world. We will therefore locate our inquiry within a broader historical and global framework that acknowledges traditions of philanthropy from diverse religious and cultural contexts. Our course materials will include personal memoirs and travel narratives; multi-disciplinary analytical texts; reflections on experience from student participants and invited guests; films and field trips. The course will take the form of an interactive seminar and will welcome all points of view.

HIST 294-11

Ethics of Service

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

HUM 212

Jamie Monson

18 / 25

HIST 330-01

Historians/Crit Race Theory

W

12:00 pm-01:00 pm

MAIN 009

Peter Rachleff

10 / 25

*2 credit course*

HIST 343-01

Imperial Nature: The US and the Global Environment

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

OLRI 270

Christopher Wells

5 / 15

*Cross-listed with ENVI 343-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

HIST 362-01

Soviet Union and Successors

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

MAIN 002

Peter Weisensel

21 / 25

*First day attendance required*

HIST 379-01

The Study of History

M

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

MAIN 001

Andrea Cremer

-2 / 15

HIST 394-01

Conquering the Flesh: Renunciation of Sex and Food in the Christian Tradition

This course examines diverse Islamic perspectives on the role of women in the public sphere, the nature of family power dynamics, and the religious implications of gender. The first half of the course surveys early Islamic views on women's roles in society, and their historical contexts. The second half explores worldwide debates among contemporary Muslims as to whether, and if so, how these traditions should be maintained.

INTL 294-02

Trans-national China: Negotiating Chineseness in the late 20th and 21st Centuries

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

HUM 112

Frederik Green

3 / 20

*Cross-listed with ASIA 294-01 and HMCS 294-01.*

INTL 317-01

Writers and Power: The European East in the 20th Century

M

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

CARN 404

Nadya Nedelsky

2 / 20

INTL 322-01

Culture and Global Capitalism

M W F

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 404

Amanda Ciafone

3 / 20

*Cross-listed with HMCS 322-01 and LATI 322-01*

INTL 333-01

Global Food Problems

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

CARN 304

Amy Damon

3 / 25

*Cross-listed with ECON 333-01 and ENVI 333-01; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

INTL 345-01

Adv Themes in Human Rights

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

CARN 404

Nadya Nedelsky

5 / 20

INTL 384-01

Langston Hughes: Global Writer

T R

08:00 am-09:30 am

CARN 404

David Moore

4 / 20

*Cross-listed with ENGL 384-01*

INTL 415-01

Cultural Resistance/Survival

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

HUM 111

Margaret Olsen

3 / 15

*Cross-listed with HISP 415-01 and LATI 415-01; first day attendance required*

*Cross-listed with LING 194-01 and WGSS 194-04.* Japanese is considered to be a gendered language in the sense that women and men speak differently from each other. Male characters in Japanese animation often use boku or ore to refer to themselves, while female characters often use watashi or atashi. When translated into Japanese, Hermione Granger (a female character in Harry Potter series) ends sentences with soft-sounding forms, while Harry Potter and his best friend Ron use more assertive forms. Do these fictional representations reflect reality? How do these distinct forms come about? Do speakers of Japanese manipulate their language to express themselves? These are some of the questions discussed in this course. Students will have opportunities to learn historical background of gendered language, discover different methodologies in data collection, find out about current discourse on language and gender, and compare gender expressions in Japanese with those in English. No Japanese language ability is required.

Trans-national China: Negotiating Chineseness in the late 20th and 21st Centuries

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

HUM 112

Frederik Green

3 / 20

*Cross-listed with ASIA 294-01 and INTL 294-02.*

HMCS 294-02

American Consumer Nation

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

OLRI 241

Christopher Wells

1 / 25

*Cross-listed with ENVI 236-01 and HIST 236-01; first day attendance required.*

HMCS 322-01

Culture and Global Capitalism

M W F

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 404

Amanda Ciafone

3 / 20

*Cross-listed with INTL 322-01 and LATI 322-01*

HMCS 334-01

Cultural Studies and the Media

M W F

12:00 pm-01:00 pm

HUM 113

Michael Griffin

13 / 19

*Cross-listed with AMST 334-01*

HMCS 394-01

Spaces of Hope

T

01:20 pm-04:20 pm

THEATR 204

John Kim

6 / 16

Spaces of Hope will explore reasons for cautious and critical optimism in a world beset by seemingly intractable economic, environmental, and social problems and inequalities. Building upon work in HMCS 110, Texts and Power, we will read action-oriented, critical social theory and analysis. The class examines how local acts can derive from theoretical prescriptions for radically alternative social structures. Thus, students will work in close collaboration with a community partner committed to social justice; individually and as a group we will reflect upon the relationship between practice and theory. Course requirements include reading, discussing, writing, and organizing with a community partner. Throughout, we will keep in mind the World Social Forum's progressive declaration: Another world is possible! Prerequisite: HMCS 110, HMCS 128, or permission of instructor. Corequisite: HMCS 621 (1 credit) or preferably 622 (2 credits) Internship, graded S/D/NC, to be added near the start of the Spring semester.

HMCS 394-01

Spaces of Hope

T

01:20 pm-04:20 pm

THEATR 204

Clay Steinman

6 / 16

Spaces of Hope will explore reasons for cautious and critical optimism in a world beset by seemingly intractable economic, environmental, and social problems and inequalities. Building upon work in HMCS 110, Texts and Power, we will read action-oriented, critical social theory and analysis. The class examines how local acts can derive from theoretical prescriptions for radically alternative social structures. Thus, students will work in close collaboration with a community partner committed to social justice; individually and as a group we will reflect upon the relationship between practice and theory. Course requirements include reading, discussing, writing, and organizing with a community partner. Throughout, we will keep in mind the World Social Forum's progressive declaration: Another world is possible! Prerequisite: HMCS 110, HMCS 128, or permission of instructor. Corequisite: HMCS 621 (1 credit) or preferably 622 (2 credits) Internship, graded S/D/NC, to be added near the start of the Spring semester.

This semester HMCS 488 will cover selected advanced topics in film studies and include a production assignment. Readings will include chapters from Raymond Bellour's The Analysis of Film; David Bordwell's Narration in the Fiction Film; Robert Stam's Film Theory; Judith Mayne's Directed by Dorothy Arzner, a queer study of the only woman who directed feature films in Hollywood from the late 1920s into the 1940s; and chapters from Ella Shohat and Robert Stam's Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media. A mid-term paper will explore one area of the readings in depth. The course concludes with Robert L. Carringer's The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction, a study of how and why RKO cut Orson Welles's 1942 film from 131 to 88 minutes. Students will recreate lost segments of Ambersons on video using available cutting continuities, soundtrack recordings, and storyboards. They will also write accompanying papers using Ambersons to analyze the cultural and political-economic structuration of formal innovation in Hollywood in the studio era. Prerequisite: HMCS 128 or permission of instructor. All students who have taken HMCS 128, including non-majors, are welcome, although the course will count as a capstone only for HMCS juniors and seniors. Students not taking the course for capstone credit may count it toward other HMCS major or minor requirements or as an elective. While some films mentioned in the readings will be screened during the four-hour class time, most will be screened TBA.

*Cross-listed with ASIA 294-02.* The purpose of this course is to understand China/the Chinese-broadly conceived to encompass mainland China, minorities, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and diasporic communities‚??by studying and performing its music. We explore the sound of both traditional and modern China by closely studying selected musical genres from various geographical and temporal Chinese worlds, including Peking Opera, Silk-and-bamboo instrumental music, minority traditions, popular music, Shanghai jazz, film and theatrical music, Communist political songs, and ancient court music. Class materials, both readings and audiovisuals, examine issues of modernization, nationalism, ethnicity, socialism, gender, among others. This is a performance-based academic course; students have the opportunity to perform Chinese instruments (provided) and participate in an end-of-semester public performance. This course is open to both music majors/minors and non-music students. There is no pre-requisite; previous knowledge of musical instrument, notation, or Chinese languages is helpful but not required.

MUSI 314-01

Theory IV, Contemp Theory/Lit

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

GDAY 308

Randall Bauer

4 / 20

MUSI 343-01

Western Music-19th Century

M W F

12:00 pm-01:00 pm

GDAY 308

Mark Mazullo

5 / 25

MUSI 394-01

History of Jazz

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

GDAY 308

Randall Bauer

9 / 25

MUSI 425-01

Seminar in Composers/Genres: Verdi

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

GDAY 308

Mark Mazullo

11 / 16

MUSI 73-01

African Music Ensemble

T R

05:30 pm-07:00 pm

Sowah Mensah

16 / 50

*Location will be Turck Lounge*

MUSI 75-01

Macalester Concert Choir

M WR

04:45 pm-06:15 pm

Eugene Rogers

22 / 60

*Location will be Emmanuel Lutheran Church; plus meets Tuesdays 7:30-9:30pm.* The Macalester Concert Choir is a chamber mixed ensemble open to all students at the College. The singers in the Concert Choir are full-time, undergraduate music and non-music major students committed to innovative and quality performances and community outreach through choral music. Repertoire of the choir includes both a capella and accompanied music from Western and Non-Western vocal traditions. The Macalester College Concert Choir tours annually throughout the United States or abroad. Past international tours have included Japan, Scotland, Poland, Costa Rica and other countries throughout the world. Under the leadership of Dr. Dale Warland from 1966-1985, the choir received national and international acclaim. This dedication to choral excellence continued under the leadership of Professor Kathy Romey, Dr. Robert Morris, Dr. Robert Peterson, and is now under the leadership of Dr. Eugene Rogers. Membership is based on an audition and callback.

MUSI 81-01

Mac Jazz Band

T R

07:00 pm-08:30 pm

Joan Griffith

1 / 20

*Location will be GDD 015*

MUSI 85-01

Pipe Band

W

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

Michael Breidenbach

31 / 50

*Location will be Turck Lounge*

MUSI 87-01

Chamber Ensemble

TBA

TBA

Cary Franklin

26 / 50

MUSI 89-01

Symphony Orchestra

T R

04:45 pm-06:15 pm

Cary Franklin

12 / 60

*Location will be Ramsey Junior High band room*

MUSI 91-01

Mac Jazz Combo

M

07:00 pm-09:30 pm

Joan Griffith

-5 / 20

*Location will be GDD 015*

MUSI 91-02

Highland Camerata

T

04:45 pm-06:15 pm

Eugene Rogers

1 / 70

*Location will be Emmanuel Lutheran Church; this ensemble will also meet Thursday evenings 6:30-7:30pm.*

*Cross-listed with ENVI 229-01; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

PHIL 231-01

Modern Philosophy

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

MAIN 010

Janet Folina

1 / 25

PHIL 236-01

Indian Philosophies

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

MAIN 011

Joy Laine

4 / 20

*Cross-listed with ASIA 236-01*

PHIL 301-01

Philosophy of Law

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

HUM 113

William Wilcox

-2 / 15

PHIL 394-01

Ethics of Information and Computing Technologies

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

MAIN 002

Diane Michelfelder

4 / 15

In this course, we will give philosophical consideration to three kinds of ethical issues associated with the "networked" world. First, we will look at issues that were objects of philosophical reflection before the dawn of "cyberethics," including privacy and freedom of speech. Here our focus will be primarily on the Internet as we know and routinely access it today by means of a device with a screen. In the second part of this course, we will expand our aperture of inquiry to include ethical issues related to emerging developments in ICT such as ambient computing, the intersection of nanotechnology with computational technology, and robotics. Can, for example, a robot be a moral agent and if so, could a robot be held responsible for her or his actions? In the third part of the course, the aperture of our thinking will expand even further. What are some of the impacts of ICTs on our everyday ethical relations with others and on the overall quality of our lives? How does being networked affect the meaning of being human? Pre-requisite: one course in philosophy or permission of instructor. Please note if you are a philosophy major: this course will count toward the 300 level elective requirement.

*Cross-listed with ENVI 130-01; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

PHYS 130-L1

Science Renewable Energy Lab

T

08:00 am-11:10 am

OLRI 154

James Doyle

0 / 18

*Cross-listed with ENVI 130-L1; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

PHYS 226-01

Principles of Physics I

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

OLRI 150

Tonnis ter Veldhuis

31 / 54

PHYS 226-L1

Principles of Physics I Lab

R

09:10 am-11:10 am

OLRI 152

Brian Adams

5 / 18

PHYS 226-L2

Principles of Physics I Lab

R

02:20 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 152

Brian Adams

8 / 18

PHYS 227-01

Principles of Physics II

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

OLRI 150

Joshua Nollenberg

36 / 63

PHYS 227-L1

Principles of Physics II Lab

M

02:20 pm-04:20 pm

OLRI 152

Brian Adams

7 / 18

PHYS 227-L2

Principles of Physics II Lab

T

09:10 am-11:10 am

OLRI 152

Brian Adams

10 / 18

PHYS 227-L3

Principles of Physics II Lab

T

01:20 pm-03:20 pm

OLRI 152

Brian Adams

10 / 18

PHYS 348-01

Laboratory Instrumentation

M W F

08:30 am-09:30 am

OLRI 101

James Heyman

3 / 24

PHYS 348-L1

Laboratory Instrumentation Lab

R

01:20 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 154

James Heyman

3 / 12

PHYS 348-L2

Laboratory Instrumentation Lab

T

01:20 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 154

James Heyman

0 / 12

PHYS 444-01

Electromagnetic Theory II

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

OLRI 170

James Doyle

11 / 24

PHYS 460-01

Astrophysics

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

OLRI 404

Joshua Nollenberg

6 / 16

PHYS 461-01

Mechanics

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

OLRI 170

Tonnis ter Veldhuis

12 / 24

PHYS 489-01

Physics Seminar

F

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 150

James Heyman

11 / 24

PHYS 494-01

Advanced Quantum Mechanics or Particles

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

OLRI 270

Tonnis ter Veldhuis

20 / 24

In this course we will continue our exploration of the fascinating world of quantum mechanics. As all but the simplest quantum systems can be solved exactly, we will develop a toolbox of approximation methods. These tools will allow us to analyze realistic physical systems in a quantitative manner. Among the approximation methods we will discuss are time independent and time dependent perturbation theory, the variational principle, the WKB (Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin) approximation, and the adiabatic approximation. The systems we will study with these tools include small atoms and molecules, and we will also investigate emission and absorption of radiation. The prerequisite for the course is: PHYS481 Quantum Mechanics

Politics and Policymaking: A Diagnosis of National Health Reforms in the U.S.

M W F

03:30 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 204

Michael Zis

1 / 25

In historical terms, national health reform is considered to be President Obama‚??s most significant legislative achievement to date. While most agree on its historic significance, there‚??s wide ranging disagreement over its merits, lessons, and future. Together, we will sort through these differing accounts and perspectives by, first, demystifying the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Act to explain what it is and what it is not; second, place the Obama health care reform effort in some global and historical context; and third, analyze the politics and interests that both stalled, led, and shaped its passage and will determine the extent to which the Act will be fully implemented, seriously amended, or mostly repealed. The plan is to do this through a mix of lectures and guest speakers, class discussion and class debates, and, finally, a class-led legislative simulation of a 2011 congressional hearing over its future.

POLI 207-01

US Civil Rights/Liberties

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

CARN 204

Patrick Schmidt

2 / 25

POLI 215-01

Environmental Politics/Policy

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

OLRI 250

Roopali Phadke

-2 / 25

*Cross-listed with ENVI 215-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor*

POLI 216-01

Legislative Politics

M

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

CARN 204

Julie Dolan

14 / 25

*Permission of instructor required.*

POLI 222-01

Regional Conflict/Security

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

CARN 204

Andrew Latham

6 / 25

POLI 242-01

Development Politics

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

HUM 401

David Blaney

3 / 25

POLI 245-01

Latin American Politics

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

HUM 212

Andrew Reiter

18 / 25

*Cross-listed with LATI 245-01*

POLI 260-01

Contemporary Political Theory

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 05

Franklin Adler

17 / 25

POLI 262-01

American Political Thought

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

CARN 206

Zornitsa Keremidchieva

7 / 25

POLI 294-01

Medieval Political Thought

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

CARN 107

Andrew Latham

6 / 25

This course deals with the political thought of Latin Christendom (Western Europe) during the late Middle Ages (c. 1250-c. 1450). This body of thought is worthy of sustained study for two reasons. First, it is one of the glories of human civilization. In seeking to answer the timeless questions "how we should live our lives as individuals" and "how we should live together in peace and justice" late medieval political thinkers produced a body of political thought second to none in the history of human philosophical speculation. Second, late medieval political thought is worthy of study because it gave rise to many of the concepts that continue to shape our collective lives even today (including state sovereignty, separation of church and state, constitutionalism, property rights, "the people", nationalism, democracy, rule-of-law, and human rights). Indeed, it is impossible to really understand contemporary political life without delving deeply into the way in which late medieval thinkers engaged with the big political issues of their day. The goal of this course it to provide a solid introduction to the political thought of this crucially important era in human history. In it, we will critically examine the relevant works of thinkers such as St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, John of Paris, Marsilius of Padua, Bartolus of Sasseferato and Baldus de Ubaldi. To the extent that they shed light on late medieval thought, we will also touch on classical political theorists such as Aristotle and Cicero as well as Muslim and Jewish thinkers such as ibn Sina, Moshe ben Maimon, and ibn Rushd. The course is structured to promote an understanding not only of how these thinkers sought to address the pressing political challenges of their day, but also of how they how they "invented" many of the ideas that we - arrogantly and erroneously - have come to associate with the modern era. As an intermediate-level offering, this course is designed primarily for Political Science majors and non-majors in cognate fields (such as Philosophy) who have some experience in the discipline. The course has no prerequisites, however, and is therefore suitable for all students seeking to satisfy an interest in political theory/philosophy or the medieval roots of contemporary political life.

POLI 294-02

The Rhetoric and Politics of Immigration

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

CARN 206

Zornitsa Keremidchieva

5 / 25

The United States are often described as a nation of immigrants, yet various anxieties over the status and role of immigrants have been expressed throughout the history of the country. This class offers a symptomatic reading of key historical debates over immigration in the United States. A symptomatic analysis explores the contextual forces that shape the definitions, terms, and goals of such debates, the variety of interests vested in the issue, and the political and social consequences of these controversies not only for the dominant political order but especially for the lives and identities of the immigrants, their families, and communities. In particular we will explore:

-key historical events and trends that have defined the flow and status of immigrants in the United States;

-how various anxieties about immigration have served to disenfranchise some groups while solidifying the power of others;

-how the status of immigrants has consequences for the political rights of citizens and vice versa, thus challenging the notion that immigrants' problems are theirs alone.

POLI 305-01

Women's Voices in Politics

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

CARN 206

Zornitsa Keremidchieva

13 / 20

*Cross-listed with WGSS 306-01.*

POLI 320-01

Global Political Economy

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 204

David Blaney

12 / 20

POLI 323-01

Humanitariansim/Wld Politics

W

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

CARN 204

Wendy Weber

2 / 20

POLI 340-01

Fascism

W

07:00 pm-10:00 pm

CARN 206

Franklin Adler

14 / 20

POLI 390-01

Civic Engagement Fellowship

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

CARN 204

Patrick Schmidt

3 / 15

POLI 394-01

Political Violence

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 206

Andrew Reiter

0 / 20

This course is an introduction to political violence. Throughout the semester, we will examine the various manifestations of political violence, focusing on diverse topics such as genocide, terrorism, and civil war. We will also explore the debates in the field of political science regarding the nature and causal factors behind these diverse manifestations of violence. We will conclude the semester by looking at how violence ends, how peace is maintained, and how societies attempt to heal from periods of violence.

*Cross-listed with WGSS 294-01.* In this course we will examine the roles, identities, and representations of women in the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Jewish and Christian apocrypha. We will explore how biblical writers used women "to think with", and we will consider how gender is co-constructed alongside religious, social, and sexual identities. We will ask the following sorts of questions: What opportunities for social advancement and leadership were open to women in early Jewish and Christian communities, and how did these opportunities differ from those open to women in other religious formations in the ancient Mediterranean? How did biblical regulations of sexuality, marriage, and family life shape women's lives? What are the social and material effects of biblical representations of women? And how might current feminist theories inform our interpretation of biblical texts about women? Textbooks:

Conquering the Flesh: Renunciation of Sex and Food in the Christian Tradition

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

OLRI 101

Susanna Drake

1 / 15

*Cross-listed with HIST 394-01.* This course explores how bodily practices of fasting and sexual abstinence have shaped Christian identities from the first century, C.E. to today. From Paul of Tarsus' instructions about sexual discipline to the True Love Waits campaign, from the desert fathers' rigorous bodily regimens to the contemporary Christian diet movement, Christians have often understood the practice of renunciation as a necessary feature of spiritual perfection. In this course we will consider several ascetic movements in Christian history, including the development of ascetic practice in late antiquity, the rise of fasting practices among women in medieval Europe, and the culture of Christian dieting and chastity in the U.S. We will pay special attention to how Christian practices of piety both draw upon and contribute to cultural understandings of gender and the body.

*Cross-listed with GERM 394-03.* Probably no two other European cities embody the political crises and artistic achievements of the twentieth century as do Moscow and Berlin. Sites of utopian energies, political power, and artistic innovation, these huge urban centers underwent striking transformations during the 1920s but also left an indelible imprint on the post-WWI intellectual climate. In the 1920s, a decade characterized by cultural and political strife in which the borders of art and politics often became blurred, there was a lively cultural exchange between Russian and Soviet artists and political emigres and German artists intensely interested in developments in the Soviet Union. In this course we will investigate the fascinating artistic culture of Moscow and Berlin as well as the intellectual exchange of ideas between the two cities, focusing on avant-garde art in prose, theater, poetry, visual art, and film. We will begin in 1919, the year in which the Weimar republic was founded and the Civil War in Russia raged, and we will conclude in 1930, the year that marked the intensification of censorship and political control in both Germany and the Soviet Union. We will read works by Vladimir Nabokov, Viktor Shklovsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Grosz, Alfred Doblin, John Heartfield, and Richard Hulsenbeck. We will explore montage principles in cinema in films by Dziga Vertov and Walter Ruttmann and ideas of urban planning and design. Course will be taught in English. No prerequisites.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American History" (Oscar Handling, 1951:3). Over the course of the last five centuries, millions of people, young and old, male and female, married and single, left their homelands to seek a better life. Originating in different localities, they escaped famine and hunger, war, religious persecution and intolerance, colonialism, and revolutionary turmoil. Some left following their "adventurous" spirit. While many died before reaping the benefits of their life transforming quest, others survived to build a new nation. While all contributed to building the country, not all left a written account of their experiences. Who were these people who, willingly or forcibly, left all they knew behind? What were they escaping from? What were their dreams? Hardships? How were they received by those who, by pure accident of history, had arrived before them? This class is an expedition into the past with an eye on the present, examining firsthand accounts left by immigrants and about them. What does an 18th century Scottish indentured servant may have in common with a 21st century migrant farm worker? What does a turn of the 20th century Polish immigrant might have in common with a 21st century Arab immigrant? What does a Japanese picture bride might share with a contemporary Russian bride? Delving into divergent historical periods and differing groups, the goal is to develop a better understanding of parallels and variations, hopes and dreams, the ease and challenges that immigrants have experienced, and continue to face.

SOCI 394-01

The Politics of Fear

M W

02:20 pm-03:50 pm

THEATR 204

Khaldoun Samman

1 / 16

This course will focus primarily on how fears spread and become moral panics of our time. We will deal with a number of issues like pedophilia, gangs, and drug scares, but fear of Muslims and Islam will be the most visible example of the course. Through the works of Foucault (discursive formations and incitement), Laclau and Moufe (hegemony and articulation), and others, this course will attempt to restore the most significant contribution Moral Panic theory offers: the constitutive nature of moral panics in the production of new racial and political identities. A major sub theme of the course will be to trace the incitement process through certain networks and what sociologists call "claims makers" and "moral

entrepreneurs" (think tanks, Zionists, Jihad Watch, Military Industrial complex), especially right wing groups but also liberals, mainstream feminists, academics, and other experts. We will also look at the construction of crime waves, but of a particular sort, the kind that reconstitutes the way we understand cultural differences, human rights, immigration, culture and crime, gender inequality, patriarchy, domestic abuse, military occupation, and so on. No prerequisites.

This course examines contemporary approaches to gender from a sociological (rather than a biological, psychological etc.) perspective. We will therefore be looking at the ways in which gender is constructed‚??that is, how society constructs and (re)produces "gender" and the binary gender system, which is predicated on gender difference. That gender is conceptualized as a construct means that ideologies that employ such things as "natural" and "normal" will be continually contested and challenged in this course. As you will find there is no agreed upon definition of gender. That is, gender is and can be conceptualized in a number of ways-as an attribute or "property" that individuals possess; as a symbolic and cultural product emanating from discursive systems (discourse and language); as that which is learned through socialization; as accomplished practice and performance that emerges through social interaction; and as a structural, institutionalized dimension of social life that organizes (and possibly determines) relations between men and women. Thus, this course will introduce you to a variety of theoretical perspectives on gender, thus providing a broad terrain on which to understand and conceptualize gender and gender relations. Gender cannot be understood in isolation. Understanding the operations of gender (as system, ideology, performance and so on) involves looking at how gender intersects with other social relations and identities. Thus, course readings will expose us to these intersections‚??that of gender with sexuality, race/ethnicity, class and so on-and how these relationships in turn shape social institutions and social life. An overriding concern in this course involves taking to task hegemonic heterosexuality and gender normativity, and thus challenging conventional ideologies as they relate to our sex/gender system.

WGSS 194-02

Feminist Cultural Production: India There and Here

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

MAIN 009

Sonita Sarker

8 / 25

*First day attendance required; cross-listed with ASIA 194-01, ENGL 194-01 and HMCS 194-01.* India is still described as "exotic" in current cultural vocabularies, by Indians and by others. We will investigate the material realities on which these cultural vocabularies rest, through the mirrors held up by Indian women writers who are this nation-state's citizens, expatriates, and diasporans. These writers' historico-political contexts, tussles with language, and other self-imagings, create a compelling force, in both developing the notion of "India" and its relationships to East Africa, North America and Western Europe. Texts include writings by Meena Alexander, Monica Ali, Arundhati Roy, Suniti Namjoshi, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Bharati Mukherjee, and Meena Syal, among others, as well as films, music , performance, and other forms of cultural production from India and elsewhere.

WGSS 194-04

Language and Gender in Japanese Society

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

HUM 110

Satoko Suzuki

4 / 20

*Cross-listed with JAPA 194-01 and LING 194-01.*

WGSS 201-01

History of U.S. Feminisms

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

MAIN 111

Lynn Hudson

9 / 25

*Cross-listed with HIST 194-03; first day attendance required.*

WGSS 228-01

Gender and Sexuality in Colonial America

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

MAIN 010

Andrea Cremer

-2 / 25

*Cross-listed with HIST 228-01*

WGSS 242-01

Economics of Gender

M W F

09:40 am-10:40 am

CARN 305

Karine Moe

5 / 25

*Cross-listed with ECON 242-01*

WGSS 252-01

Feminist Visual Culture

T R

01:20 pm-02:50 pm

ART 113

Joanna Inglot

13 / 20

*First day attendance required; cross-listed with ART 252-01.*

WGSS 262-01

Performing Feminisms

M W F

12:00 pm-01:00 pm

THEATR 204

Beth Cleary

8 / 20

*Cross-listed with THDA 262-01*

WGSS 294-01

Women in the Bible

M W F

10:50 am-11:50 am

CARN 105

Susanna Drake

-2 / 20

*Cross-listed with RELI 294-03.*

WGSS 294-02

Gender/Race/Nations in the Sciences

T R

03:00 pm-04:30 pm

CARN 06A

Sonita Sarker

20 / 25

*No prerequisites; cross-listed with ENVI 294-03; ACTC students may register on Friday, December 3rd with permission of instructor.* This course is an inquiry into the cultural, social, and philosophical contexts of gender and race in the domains of some sciences and technologies. How have gendered and racialized minorities been represented in established frameworks historically and how have they responded to these depictions? We will analyze the prevailing perceptions of the Ideas of science and technology; the Icons, prominent scientists and symbols of these domains; and the Instruments, the tools and apparatuses, that are defined and redefined. Our focus will be on the roles that women and indigenous peoples (separate and also overlapping identities) have played in reconstructing the foundations and transforming the meanings in some sciences and technologies today. The class will include topics such as racial and gender typologies, biodiversity, and the internet, and works by Plumwood, Warren, Shiva, Harding, Fox Keller, Schiebinger, to name only some.

WGSS 305-01

Race/Sex/Work Global Econ

M W F

01:10 pm-02:10 pm

CARN 105

Corie Hammers

19 / 25

*Cross-listed with AMST 305-01*

WGSS 306-01

Women's Voices in Politics

M W F

02:20 pm-03:20 pm

CARN 206

Zornitsa Keremidchieva

13 / 20

*Cross-listed with POLI 305-01.*

WGSS 315-01

Comparative (Neo/Post) Modernities

T R

09:40 am-11:10 am

MAIN 009

Sonita Sarker

16 / 25

*First day attendance required; cross-listed with ENGL 394-05, HIST 394-03 and HMCS 394-03.* To understand political and cultural continuities and shifts from the 1920s into the 1990s, this course will focus on fascism as historical phenomenon and as one ideology of modernity. In the context of political, economic, social, and cultural theories, we will explore the relationship of fascism to concepts of masculinity and femininity, sexuality, race, class, and nation. Against this backdrop, we will investigate the roles and impact of women writers/intellectuals on such concepts, as well as relate histories past to histories present. Texts by Hurston, de Gobineau, Rhys, Mussolini, Adorno, Woolf, Benjamin, Ocampo, C. L. R. James, Deledda, Sorabji among others, as well as films and music, will be included.